y-chan

y-chan is an independent Japanese developer focused on open, accessible speech synthesis. The studio’s only public title, SHAREVOX, is a no-cost text-to-speech editor that lets users build and share custom voices from standard audio samples. Instead of relying on cloud APIs, SHAREVOX wraps a lightweight inference engine into a friendly Windows interface, so novelists can audition dialogue, streamers can generate narration, and accessibility advocates can craft localized screen-reader voices without exposing data online. The program imports WAV or FLAC recordings, trains a statistical or neural model in minutes, and exports the resulting voice as a VOICEROID-compatible library or a portable ONNX file for integration with OBS, Unity, or After Effects plug-ins. Pitch, tempo, and emotional tone are adjusted through a piano-roll timeline, while phoneme labels can be edited directly for precise Japanese or English pronunciation. Community hubs exchange finished voice banks under permissive licenses, fostering a growing catalog of anime-style characters, corporate announcers, and regional dialects. SHAREVOX is available for free on get.nero.com; the package is pulled from trusted Windows sources such as winget, always installs the latest release, and can be queued alongside other applications for unattended batch setup.